“A big player sale”
Bayer boss puts a huge price tag on Wirtz
April 19, 2024, 7:34 a.m
In Bayer Leverkusen’s championship season, Florian Wirtz has finally joined the ranks of the most sought-after young professionals in the football world. Anyone who wants to free the spectacular offensive player from the German champions before his contract expires will have to dig deep into their pockets.
Bayer Leverkusen’s managing director Fernando Carro has called for a transfer fee of at least 150 million euros for national player Florian Wirtz. The 59-year-old football official said this in an interview with “Radio Marca”. You can never say that you won’t sell it. “But we would never let Wirtz go for less than 150 million,” said the Spaniard.
Carro once again makes it clear that the 20-year-old will also play for Leverkusen next season. The top official of the new German champions once again admitted that many clubs were interested in the midfielder. In football, Carro said, you can’t plan much longer than a year. Wirtz’s contract runs until June 30, 2027. Carro announced again that there would “probably” be a large player sale in order to finance two or three new additions. But it won’t be Wirtz.
In the current season, the young midfielder, who Leverkusen brought in from the youth team of 1. FC Köln in 2020 for a fee of 200,000 euros, has finally joined the ranks of the most promising young players in the football world: Wirtz has scored eleven goals in 29 Bundesliga games so far, scoring against France He recently played for the national team for the first time – and that was historic.
“The award for the Wirtz transfer must go to (current sports director – editor’s note) Simon Rolfes,” club boss Fernando Carro once reported to the Spanish sports newspaper “AS”. “Simon has been following Flo since he was 12 or 13 years old. He had many meetings with his parents, who are also his agents. It was years of work.” The transfermarkt.de portal currently estimates the current market value of the player, who is still advised by his parents, at 110 million euros.